The Theatre and Performance Design Education Network

Network mission

This network, with a specific focus on pedagogy, aims to support teaching, research and innovation in theatre and performance design education. It also aims to enhance pedagogy and research within the subject and to act as an advocate for educators, evidencing the importance of the disciplines and consolidating their future within the Academy.

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Joining the Network

Benefits of attending our conference and becoming a member of the network have been identified as the following:

Network voting rights

Staff exchanges within member institutions only

Invitation of individual members from within institution but from another discipline

Discounted Routledge subscription

Publication of research and practice papers

Practitioner workshops and presentations

Postgraduate research

Theatre Design and Pedagogy Conference

Our inaugural conference took place on 15-16 March 2018 and was entitled ‘Theatre and Performance Design Pedagogy Conference: Best Practice and Strategies for the Future’.

"[W]ith every generation of graduates we are in danger of legitimising and setting in stone the prevailing understanding of the artistic disciplines, as they are represented by the institutions." - Heiner Goebbels, Aesthetics of Absence, 2015.

The network aims to bring together teachers and researchers from a range of international institutions engaged with the teaching of theatre and performance design. It will support current best practice, strategise for the future and provide a forum for interrogating the efficacy of different pedagogical approaches.